[Soul Angel]

Personally I don't just buy a game for the graphics and cut scenes myself. There are other aspects for why I get a particular game, like gameplay, storyline and plots etc etc...

Looking more to the cut scenes, these day people seem to expect there to be cut scenes in a game and this is also one thing which I think publishers look for now in a game.
Because of this, this can cause problems for smaller game companies as well as ones only starting up, since doing cut scenes can cost more money to do as well as more work, so even if it is a really good game because there is no cut scenes people might just not really give it ago etc...